Welcome to Hooniverse’s weekly look ahead to who’s racing what and where this weekend. This Labor Day weekend features what has quietly become one of the greatest endurance races in modern motorsport. In addition, several series wrap up their season this with championship titles at stake. Here’s the short list with a lot more after the break:

• The craziest and possibly slowest 24-hour car race

• IndyCar’s final showdown in California

• NHRA’s biggest weekend of the season

• Big rigs and rally cars to Czech out

• And more things!

2CV 24 Hours: Anglesey Circuit Forget all the jibber-jabber about Le Mans and Daytona, this is the Real Deal: 24 consecutive hours of racing in the flimsy-paneled 49-horsepower (at best) Citroen 2CV. The Classic 2CV Racing Club regularly flog these barely-post-war-designed toys in shorter races, but this is the series’ big event. As it turns out, the French motorized buggies are remarkably robust if not fast. The real trick, apparently, is fuel economy: The 2CV in race conditions burns about 10 liters of gas per hour, or about 2.5 miles per gallon. With refueling done via a single 20-liter can, that means these cars run about two-hour stints at a pace that makes the 24 Hours of LeMons look like Formula One. The comically skinny tires get swapped occasionally and, like LeMons, mid-race swaps are commonplace, sometimes even planned, affairs. Most teams keep a spare drivetrain handy and the best can swap one out in as few as six minutes. A very young Jeremy Clarkson attended the first 2CV full-day race in 1990 for Top Gear, when 30 of the 31 starters finished the race. The venue has changed from year to year, but the 2014 edition finds the race at Anglesey, a Welsh circuit that can run several configurations up to 2.1 miles. The best part of all this: You can get live coverage of it throughout the race for free on the Classic 2CV Racing Club site! Can you guess where I’ll be this Saturday? Clear your calendar for the day and pencil this in at the top of your bucket list, while you’re at it. Website: Classic 2CV Racing Club site. Anglesey site. Event page. Guide to the race. Supporting series: A number of renowned international psychologists should be on hand for competitors and spectators alike. Live coverage: Free live broadcast on the Classic 2CV Racing Club site starts Saturday @ 7:30 a.m. ET.   IndyCar: MAVTV 500 (Auto Club Speedway | Fontana, CA) Back to the high-dollar world of motorsports, IndyCar wraps up its season Saturday in Fontana with 500 miles around Auto Club Speedway’s super-fast two-mile speedway under the lights. Why end the season so early? IndyCar’s TV performance hasn’t really been incredible for the last couple years so they are doing everything they can to avoid conflicting with the big TV ratings of the NFL, NCAA football, and the Major League Baseball playoffs. But enough of that; let’s focus on the race for the championship. Will Power enters the final race weekend leading Penske teammate Helio Castroneves by 51 points and Simon Pagenaud by 81 points. The Fontana winner takes home 100 points with bonus points handed out for leading a lap (1), winning pole (1), and leading the most laps (2), so the maximum points for a weekend would be 104. So here are the championship scenarios: If Will Power scores 53 points or more (sixth place or better), he clinches the championship regardless of what happens. The lowest total possible is likely 16 points, so if Power finishes dead last, Castroneves will still need a podium finish to win the title. Pagenaud would have half a chance if (1) Power finishes in the bottom four positions, (2) Castroneves scores lower than third, and (3) Pagenaud wins the race. I think I have that right, anyway. So who’s going to win the race? Since Fontana returned to the IndyCar schedule in 2012, Will Power has one of the two wins. Castroneves has raced there more than anyone else in the series (6 times) with two poles and finishes in every single race between P5 and P9. Pagenaud’s chances look even more bleak when you consider that in his two races at Fontana he has finished 13th and 15th. That said, if you watched last weekend’s race at Sonoma Raceway, you know to expect the unexpected. Want a longshot to bet on? Carlos Munoz won the Indy Lights race each of the last two years and knows the track well. The rookie is due for a good result with finishes outside the Top 10 in five of his last six races. Website: IndyCar site. Auto Club site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Entry list. Live coverage: Saturday @ 9 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network (TV). Live timing and streaming audio on IndyCar Race Control site.   NHRA: U.S. Nationals (Lucas Oil Raceway) You may not think of the word “prestige” when it comes to drag racing, but the U.S. Nationals’ rich Labor Day history at Indianapolis is indeed a prestigious event. The Labor Day races provide the perfect counterpoint to the city’s Memorial Day pomp and circumstance; a significant fan festival remains part of the U.S. Nationals’ big draw. For the racers, this is the last chance for those on the points bubble to crack the Top 10 in each class for a run at the Countdown to the Championship. Website: NHRA site. Lucas Oil Raceway site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Entry list.  Live coverage: Monday @ 11 a.m. ET on ESPN.com and noon ET on ESPN2.   NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Chevy Silverado 250 (Canadian Tire Motorsport Park | Bowmanville, Ontario) The flowing confines of Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (formerly known as Mosport) is certainly an interesting setting for NASCAR’s race trucks. In the sportscar world, CTMP is known as a track with extremely high-speed corners that rewards guts and execution, a place where downforce can make an immense difference. With that in mind, the brick-shaped trucks should be an interesting and exciting pairing with the circuit. Expect some drivers from the supporting Canadian Tire Series to pull double duty. Andrew Ranger from CTS in a former winner at the track and will race both series while open-wheel veteran (and Canadian) Alex Tagliani should give the series regulars a run for the money. Keep an eye out also for K&N Pro East driver Gray Gaulding and NASCAR Mexico ace German Quiroga Jr., both of whom are terrific on road courses. The Canadian series runs this track twice a year and in nine races, only four drivers have won with J.R. Fitzpatrick taking four of those. Here’s a fun fact: The top class of the GT3 Cup Challenge will run the same laptimes as the NASCAR trucks despite lacking a couple hundred horsepower. Downforce is remarkable like that. Website: NASCAR CWTS site. CTMP site. Event page with weekend schedule. Entry list. Supporting series: NASCAR Canadian Tire Series. Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada. Canadian Touring Car Championship. Live coverage: Sunday @ 1 p.m. on Fox Sports 1 (TV).     NASCAR Sprint Cup: Oral-B USA 500 (Atlanta Motor Speedway) Sprint Cup runs its penultimate round of the “regular season” before the Chase this weekend. I’ll spare you the details on The Chase (If you’re really interested, here’s a simple primer from NASCAR), but only 16 drivers will qualify for the “playoffs,” so to speak. A win gets a driver in automatically, but only 12 drivers have won race, leaving four spots up for grabs. The highest points finishers will also clinch spots and Matt Kenseth’s significant points lead should get him one of those. Another six to eight drivers could make it interesting for the final three spots, but that of course can go out the window if a driver low in the points like Danica Patrick (nearly 200 points behind the 16th Chase spot) steals a win in one of the final two rounds. That all-or-nothing attitude could make it a bit nuttier than usual at Atlanta 1.5-mile oval and next weekend at Richmond International’s short 3/4-mile bullring. Website: Sprint Cup site. AMS site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Entry list. Supporting series: Great Clips 300 Benefitting Feed the Children (NASCAR Nationwide). Live coverage: Sunday @ 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN and Performance Radio Network (Streaming/Radio). Nationwide – Saturday @  7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2 (TV) and Performance Radio Network (Streaming/Radio).   MotoGP: British Grand Prix (Silverstone Circuit) Well, it finally happened: After starting the season with 10 consecutive wins, Marc Marquez failed to win aboard his Honda at Brno. Instead, his teammate Dani Pedrosa took his first victory of the year at Brno ahead of the Yamaha pairing of Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi, respectively. Marquez’s fourth-place finish was his lowest since Round 16 in Australia last year, where he was disqualified. Last year at Silverstone, Marquez set the pole time and managed to finish second. He still maintains a 77-point gap with seven rounds remaining and while it’s far from a certainty, he certainly appears to have a stranglehold on his second MotoGP title. Website: MotoGP site. Silverstone. Event page with weekend schedule. Supporting series: Moto2. Moto3. Live coverage: Sunday @ 8 a.m. ET on Fox Sports 1.   Pirelli World Challenge: Brainerd International Raceway World Challenge’s Touring Car classes head to the first of their final two rounds, both also representing the only standalone weekends for World Challenge. They’ll share the weekend at Brainerd with the Trans Am series, which also falls under the SCCA Pro Racing umbrella, and the Land O’ Lakes regional weekend. PWC gets top billing from me for offering the only live broadcast options, something I (and you should, too) hope gets added to Trans Am’s portfolio in 2015. For World Challenge, the most interesting race to watch will be the Touring Car (A) class with Jason Wolfe leading Shea Holbrook by just 33 points heading into the weekend. Both have looked spectacular at times in the TCA (which is not too far off from the Showroom Stock classes of yore) and have had some titanic battles this season. In Trans Am, Doug Peterson looks in control of the top TA-class standings, but TA2 appears to have some wrinkles in it. Points leader Cameron Lawrence switched over to the sexy new Dodge Challenger at the last round at Mid-Ohio and will have to contend with teething troubles in a new car while also trying to maintain a championship lead. Running him down in the standings? Well, that’s the territory of a familiar racing surname: Adam Andretti, whose uncle is none other than some Mario guy. Website: PWC site. BIR site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Entry list. Supporting series: Trans Am. SCCA Land O’ Lakes regional weekend. Live coverage: Live streaming races on World Challenge TV throughout weekend. Check schedule above.   British GT: Brands Hatch I know I say this every time a British GT race comes up, but this must surely be the best national GT championship on the planet right now (aside from World Challenge’s GT/GTS races, perhaps). British GT gets some heavyweight backing from the decidedly British effort of Bentley, whose Continental GT3s have already made a splash all over GT racing, and unofficialy from Aston Martin Racing. It also features one of the great motorsport teams of all time, Ecurie Ecosse, who lead the GT3 championship currently. The grid also includes Nissan GT Academy winner Jann Mardenborough paired with former cycling gold medalist Chris Hoy. Porsche factory driver Nick Tandy will be in a Porsche and frequent Top Gear participant Matt Griffin in a Ferrari 458. Website: British GT site. Brands Hatch site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Entry list. Supporting series: BRDC Formula 4 Championship. British Formula 3. Volkswagen Racing Cup. Ginetta GT5 Challenge. Live coverage: None in the U.S. Motors TV highlights in Europe.   Super GT: Suzuka Circuit Japan’s national touring car series is really intriguing: The top GT500 class shares chassis design with the German DTM cars, although the Super GT drives all run turbocharged four cylinders. The GT300 class is a mix of JDM tubeframe designs and FIA-spec GT3 cars, giving the lower class a feel not dissimilar to Pirelli World Challenge. Suzuka hosts the series sixth round of eight and, as was pointed out this week by Daily SportsCar, you can watch races on YouTube with English subtitles not too long (a week or two) after the races are over. Website: Super GT site. Suzuka site. Event page with weekend schedule in Japanese and entry list (English). Live coverage: None stateside, which is most unfortunate.   ADAC GT Masters: Nurburgring Like British GT, this is a top-level national GT championship with GT3 cars in the top class run by familiar racing outfits: Abt Racing with Audi R8 LMS, Schubert Racing with BMW Z4s, Grasser Racing with Lamborghini Gallardos, H.T.P. with Mercedes SLS AMG GT3s, and, surprisingly, five GM entries. These include four Callaway Competition conversions of old GTE cars to GT3 spec and Reiter Engineering, who run one of a very small number of Chevy Camaro Z28 GT3 cars. The drivers’ championship is certainly getting interesting. Schubert’s pair of Claudia Hurtgen and Dominik Baumann lead the championship. While Hurtgen is not a household name in the U.S., she is perhaps the most successful current female roard racer in the world currently. The BMW pair lead Porsche driver Jaap Van Lagen by four points and a single point back from there is the Abt Audi duo of Kelvin Van Der Linde and Rene Rast, the last of whom is exceptionally fast and always fun to watch. Website: GT Masters. Nurburgring. Event page. Entry list. Supporting series: ADAC Formula Masters. ADAC Procar. ATS Formula 3 Cup. Live coverage: Some manner of delayed TV highlights for the U.S., but I couldn’t figure out which channel. Anybody?   FIA European Truck Racing Championship: Czech Truck Prix (Autodrome Most | Czech Republic) The ETRC is certifiably insane and amazing. There’s not much to add, save for this event’s Most awesome name: Czech Truck Prix. Just rolls off the tongue. If you’re curious, Most is a 21-turn course just a few miles from the German border. And now you know. Also relevant for truck racing fans: ChampTruck released a promotional video for big-rig racing in the States, though they seem to have used FIA ETRC footage from this season. While ChampTruck will actually look nothing like ETRC, it apparently will debut with the tagline “Sport fans close business action emotions.” Or something like that. Just watch the video. Website: ETRC site. Most site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Supporting series: Renault Clio Cup Central Europe. Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup. Live coverage: None in the U.S., but you can find highlights on TruckRace.org.   FIA European Rally Championship: Czech Rally Zlin About four hours from Most, the FIA’s ERC will bomb around the asphalt roads near the city of Zlin. Unsurprisingly, Skoda has won the last five Czech Rallies, which traverse some tired old Iron Curtain roads and wind through the Czech forests. Rain falls frequently on this rally so the driver(s) who best adapt to changing weather conditions should have an advantage. If you missed last weekend’s World Rally Championship action from Germany, by the way, check out the highlights on the WRC’s Youtube page. For once, rally was worth watching and you couldn’t have scripted it better. Website: ERC site. Czech Rally site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Entry list. Maps! Live coverage: No live online coverage like WRC, but stage results are posted to the site shortly after completion.   TORC: The Keys to the Big House (Crandon International Off-Road Raceway | Crandon, WI) Crandon hosts its second round of The Off-Road Championship this year, which also happens to be the season finale. In Pro 4, Johnny Greaves looks to have clinched his second consecutive title while in Pro 2, CJ Greaves looks to have done the same to win his first championship. Having never gone to a TORC race before, I’m excited to see that a Chicago race has been put back on the 2015 schedule. So I’ll be there, probably. Website: TORC site. Crandon site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Live coverage: Delayed broadcast on NBC Sports Network September 6 @ 3:30 p.m. ET.   NASCAR K&N Pro Series West: Bakersfield 150 (Kern County Raceway Park | Bakersfield, CA) Speaking of second visits to tracks, the K&N West cars return for a second 150-mile race near the desert crossroads of Bakersfield. The half-mile oval saw a dominating win by points leader Greg Pursley, who also won last year’s single race there. That’s all of the K&N races at Kern County so Pursley will try to maintain his perfect record this weekend. Website: K&N West site. Kern County site. Event page. Live coverage: Possibly streaming live on FansChoice.tv.   ARCA: Southern Illinois 100 (DuQuoin State Fairgrounds) After ARCA visited the official state fairgrounds in Springfield, Illinois, a few weeks back, they head to the state’s second fair and second 100-mile race, this one at DuQuoin State Fair’s circuit. Like the Springfield race, ARCA’s annual visit was preceded by USAC racing. And also like Springfield’s 100-mile sprint, ARCA legend Frank Kimmel holds the record for most wins at DuQuoin (6). One more thing that’s similar to Springfield: The track is a one-mile dirt oval. Website: ARCA site. DuQuoin Fair site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Entry list. Supporting series: Probably a lot of bad tattoos and deep-fried things that shouldn’t be deep fried. Live coverage: No TV for this race.   Aston Martin GT4 Challenge Series of North America: Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Last year, veteran sportscar outfit The Racer’s Group became the North American ambassadors for Aston Martin Racing, vowing to run Astons in IMSA’s Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge and Pirelli World Challenge while also hoping to get the spec series off the ground. With IMSA-backed one-make series like Ferrari Challenge and Lamborghini Super Trofeo, the competition is stiff, but hopefully this GT4 Vantage-only series catches on. The UK version of the Aston challenge (shown above) has been relatively successful and this race weekend at Laguna Seca marks the third of six rounds with Monticello Motor Club, Road America, and Sebring International Raceway remaining on the schedule. Website: GT4 Challenge site. MRLS site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Supporting series: Aston Martin Motorsports Festival Live coverage: Live timing on Race Monitor.   NASA East Championship: Road Atlanta The National Auto Sport Association will hold two regional championships rather than a single national championship. The first, primarily for the country’s eastern half, will run this weekend at iconic Road Atlanta. The entry list is enormous with cars mostly from production-based models. Look for huge fields in Spec Miata and Spec E30. Want someone to root for? Olaaf Rossi, who built the incredible Turbo Taxi LeMons car, will drive the #212 Mustang in the Spec Iron class. Website: NASA Championships site. Road Atlanta site. Event page. Weekend schedule. Entry list. Live coverage: Live timing on Race Monitor.   Atlantic Championship Series: Thompson Speedway The SCCA Pro Racing Atlantic Championship Series marks the third of the Pro Racing series running this weekend with Trans Am and World Challenge sharing Brainerd International Raceway. The Atlantics series and its supporting F1600 and F2000 ladders hold their final rounds at the revamped Thompson Speedway in Connecticut, its 1.7 miles outlining one of the first purpose-built road courses in the country. Website: Atlantics site. Thompson site. Weekend schedule. Entry list. Supporting series: F1600 Formula F Championship Series. F2000 Championship Series. Live coverage: Live timing on Atlantics site or on Race Monitor.   ChumpCar World Series: The Ridge Motorsports Park ChumpCar returns to its proverbial home, the Pacific Northwest, where the series launched with its first race at Portland International Raceway in 2009. The original format for the weekend was intended to be six 4-hour races over three days of the long weekend, but the format was revised to mix up the format: Saturday gets a pair of races each lasting 4-1/2 hours, Sunday gets a single nine-hour endurance race, and Monday morning sees a single four-hour sprint to allow teams to pack up and head home before the work week returns. Website: CCWS site. The Ridge site. Supplement regulations with entry list & weekend schedule. Live coverage: Live timing on CCWS site or on Race Monitor.   Did we miss a race weekend? Heading to the local dirt oval or parking lot autocross? Let us know in the comments!   [Lead photo copyright 2014 Hooniverse/Eric Rood | Other photos: Citroen 2CV Racing Club UK, VisitIndy.com, World-Challenge.com, FIA.com, AstonMartin.com]